Feb. 19, 2002
Kudos!
Acknowledgements
Lori Brainard, assistant
professor of public administration, SBPM, participated in a Dec. 6 roundtable
discussion, Online Profiling: Doing More Harm than Good?
at the National Press Club. The forum was hosted by GSPMs Democracy
Online Project. Brainard also presented a talk about the use of the
Internet by self-organizing groups at a conference on the Neighborhood
Participation Project sponsored by the University of Southern Californias
School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
Amitai
Etzioni, University Professor, was honored Jan. 22 with one of
the Federal Republic of Germanys highest honors, the Officers
Cross of the Order of the Merit, for his contributions to the fostering
of intercultural dialog and his work with conflict prevention.
Harvey
Feigenbaum, professor of political science and international
affairs, and associate dean, ESIA, was keynote speaker at the Second
International Conference on Culture Policy Research in Wellington, New
Zealand, Jan. 2327. Following the conference he was interviewed
on New Zealand National Radio concerning his research on digital technology
and the protection of national cultures.
Carolyn
Frenger, user education librarian, Gelman Library, has been selected
to present her session, Is This Assignment Really Necessary? The
Evolution of a First-Year Experience Library Research Assignment
at the LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction 2002 Conference, May
1011 in Ypsilanti, MI.
Peter
Rollberg, associate professor of Slavic studies and film studies
and director of the University Honors Program, CCAS, presented the opening
lecture on Neopatriotism in Russian and American Cinema
at a conference hosted by The Russian Cinema Research Institute (NIIK)
in Moscow.
Charles
N. Toftoy, associate professor, SBPM, conducted two workshops
A Model Partnership: Building the First International Enterprise
Zone, and The Most Troublesome Small Business Issues: Interactive
Discussions With Three Small Business Presidents, at the 16th
annual National Conference of the United States Association for Small
Business and Entrepreneurship, Jan. 1720, in Reno, NV.
Jonathan
Turley, J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Professor of Public Interest
Law, was ranked No. 38 out of the Top 100 public intellectuals, measured
by scholarly citations and media mentions. Richard Posner, judge, scholar,
and author, conducted the study. A complete list appeared in the Jan.
19 edition of The New York Times.
George
Wang, associate professor of Chinese and international affairs,
gave a talk and chaired a panel at the International Conference on Internet
Chinese Education, Dec. 2224, in Taipei.
Appointments
Megan Doscher, appointed
as assistant director of communication for the School of Business and
Public Management.
Ali Eskandarian
and Ginger Smith, appointed to be associate
deans in the College of Professional Studies (CPS) the Univeristys
newest degree-granting college.
Karl
F. Inderfurth, ESIA, appointed as professor of the practice of
international affairs. Ambassador Inderfurth also has been named director
of the Elliott Schools masters program in international
affairs. He has been a part-time member of the faculty since August.
Publications
Howard Eisner, distinguished
research professor and professor of engineering management and systems
engineering, SEAS, had the second edition of his book, Essentials
of Project and Systems Engineering Management, published by John
Wiley & Sons as part of its Wiley-Interscience Publication series.
Alf Hiltebeitel,
professor of religion and human sciences, CCAS, published Rethinking
the Mahabharata: A Readers Guide to the Education of the Dharma
King, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Carol
H. Hoare, professor of human development and human resource development,
CCAS, published Erikson on Development in Adulthood: Insights
from Unpublished Papers, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Carol
Izumi, professor of clinical law and assistant dean for clinical
affairs, GW Law School, co-authored a casebook Race, Rights, and
Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment Aspen Law
and Business, 2001.
Aseem
Prakash, assistant professor of strategic management and public
policy, SBPM, published the paper, Why Do Firms Adopt Beyond-Compliance
Environmental Policies? in Business Strategy and the Environment,
2001, v.10, n.5, pp. 286299.
Lee Sigelman,
professor of political science, CCAS, and Christopher J. Deering, professor
of political science, CCAS, co-authored with Burdett A. Loomis (University
of Kansas) Wading Knee Deep in Words, Words, Words: Senatorial
Rhetoric in the Johnson and Clinton Impeachment Trials, in Congress
and the Presidency, v. 28, n. 2, Autumn 2001, pp. 119139.
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